Just read the article that basically said Ohtani led the push hard for L.A. They pulled out all the stops and appealed to his senses in several ways. Why rent out the biggest sushi restaurant in town (like TOR did for Ohtani) when you can just have a minority owner open his mansion and hire the best sushi chefs? Magic Johnson lives and breathes L.A. in a way the GOAT never does for Chicago. He got in on the recruiting. The team has made the postseason for a decade straight, are the defending champs, have 2 of the most prominent legends from the NPB already, a massive Japanese-American population, has the best development system in the league, has unlimited resources and 100% willingness from the owners to do whatever it takes to keep getting better. It was pretty much a foregone conclusion.